With a deep breath, he launched his usual introduction, âHi! My name is Andrew and .â
âOh, wait!â exclaimed the woman at Pear Park Elementary Schoolâs office, âI have to get more people to listen to this!â
Then she took off. A few beats later she was back, and 8-year-old Andrew Thomas was able to continue and present the smiling assembly with the multicultural crayons and markers he had brought.
Then many of the students asked for his autograph. No one had done that before, Andrew said.
As Andrew and his mother, Jana Thomas, have made delivery after delivery of Crayola multicultural crayons and markers to local elementary schools in recent weeks, they were never quite sure what they would encounter.